Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)

by Alice Hoffman

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Practical Magic is a tale of two sisters, Gillian and Sally Owens, brought up by their two elderly guardian aunts in a world of spells and exotica from which they eventually escape - one by running away, the other by marrying - but which never escapes from them. Many years go by before strange circumstances thrust them together again, and again they are in a world that blends the mundane and the mysterious, the familiar and the fantastic, the normal and the numinous. Three generations of Owens women are then united in an experience of unexpected insight and revelation, teaching all of them that the perceptions provided by what is called the magical are rare and wonderful endowments.
  • ISBN10 0399140557
  • ISBN13 9780399140556
  • Publish Date 13 June 1995 (first published 1 January 1995)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 28 October 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Putnam Adult
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 244
  • Language English